Each card leads with the number that made it a story — read straight out of their results, no editorialising.
95.4% of a perfect 720
Their best day on record: 686.8112 at 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational — 95.4% of a perfect 720.
The nearest teams in the power rankings, with a different reason on each card — six teams on one rating are rarely on it for the same reason. Rating decides who makes the list; where teams tie on it, the ones this team has actually cooked against come first, then teams at a similar point in their own career. KCBS doesn’t publish where a team is from, so nothing here is inferred from geography.
Elk Creek BBQ has 1 rated contest — short of the five it takes to earn a power ranking — so this rating has barely moved off the 1500 every team starts on and 83 rated teams sit within a point of it. Read the list as the nearest company at a number nobody here has moved far from, not as a verdict on who this team belongs with.
A longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headThey turned up 7 years after Elk Creek BBQ did, first appearing in 2022.
⚔ Head-to-headLevel with Elk Creek BBQ on power rating, which is the whole reason they're on the list.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-headA longer road to the same neighbourhood — 5 contests to 2.
⚔ Head-to-head6 contests to 2: their number has had years to settle where Elk Creek BBQ's is still finding its level.
⚔ Head-to-head| Category | Entries | Calls | Wins | Podiums | Best | Worst | Average | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 173.1428 | 171.4172 | 172.28 | top 21% |
| Pork Ribs | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 172.0228 | 169.7028 | 170.86 | top 25% |
| Pork | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 177.1428 | 173.7028 | 175.42 | top 8% |
| Brisket | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 170.2628 | 164.0000 | 167.13 | top 43% |
“Calls” = top-10 category finishes (getting called to the stage). Scores here are the final weighted totals KCBS publishes; per-criterion appearance/taste/tenderness marks aren’t in the public results feed.
| Season | Contests | GCs | Top-10s | Category wins | Walk rate | Avg finish | Best overall (% of perfect) | Avg overall (% of perfect) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0% | top 11% | 95.4% | 95.2% |
| Date | Event | Overall | Chicken | Ribs | Pork | Brisket |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-03 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Open Kansas City, MO | 34 / 606 (684.5828) | 107 (171.4172) | 68 (172.0228) | 17 (177.1428) | 258 (164.0000) |
| 2015-10-02 | 36th Annual American Royal World Series of Barbeque- Invitational unrated Kansas City, MO | 31 / 187 (686.8112) | 46 (173.1428) | 72 (169.7028) | 26 (173.7028) | 80 (170.2628) |